A Closer Look at Galen of Pergamon (129 – c. 210 CE)

A Closer Look at Galen of Pergamon (129 – c. 210 CE)

In my novel, “The King’s Anatomist,” the Greek physician Galen serves as a foil for the triumph of Andreas Vesalius; it was Galen’s anatomical findings that Vesalius overturned thirteen centuries after Galen’s death. But don’t be left with the impression that Galen...